Students will contact the teacher and agree on a short consultation. There they will be given a brief introduction to authors and literary works whose film adaptations they can watch within their self-study. They will be briefly introduced to the theory of literary and film genres, film adaptation, film as a medium, types of film vision, fidelity of adaptation, narrative styles, narrator, ich/er form, narrative style, the meaning of the story in the interpretation of the world, heritage and tradition. Students will be offered the following list of film adaptations of classical works of English literature, from which they will choose 6 films. After they watch them they will choose one of them and read the English literary original the adaptation was based on and will write an English essay about this chosen title: List of film adaptations: Romeo and Juliet dir.: Franco Zeffirelli, 1968 (alternative - Shakespeare in Love - film) Macbeth, Throne of Blood, dir.: Akira Kurosawa, 1957 Henry V, dir.: Laurence Olivier, 1945 Jane Eyre, dir.: Robert Stevenson, 1944 Wuthering Heights, dir.: Robert Fuest, 1970 Great Expectations, dir.: David Lean, 1946 Pride and Prejudice, dir.: Joe Wright, 2005 The Fall of the House of Usher, dir.: Jan Švankmajer, Sense and Sensibility, dir.: Ang Lee, 1995 The Hound of the Baskervilles, dir.: Terence Fisher, 1959 Gone to Earth, dir.: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1950 The War of the Worlds, dir.: Byron Haskin, 1954 Rebecca, dir.: Alfred Hitchcock, 1940 Alice in Wonderland, Alice, (česky Něco z Alenky) dir.: Jan Švankmajer, 1988 Turn of the Screw, The Innocents, dir.: Jack Clayton, 1961 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, dir.: Roy Ward Baker, 1971 Howards End, dir.: M Radford, 1984 Ruth Rendell, The Dark Adapted Eye, dir.: Tim Fyvell, 1994 Lord of the Flies, dir.: Peter Brook, 1963 Orlando, dir.: Sally Potter, 1992 Brighton Rock, dir.: John Boulting, 1947 Apocalypse Now, dir.: Francis Ford Coppola, 1979, The Heart of Darkness Far from the Madding Crowd, dir.: J. Schlesinger, 1967 Tess, dir.: Roman Polanski, 1979, based on Thomas Hardy - Tess of the Durbenvilles Sons and Lovers, dir.: Jack Cardiff, 1960 Women in Love, dir.: Ken Russell, 1969 The Portrait of Dorian Gray, dir.: Albert Lewin, 1945 The Talented Mr. Ripley, dir.: Anthony Minghella, 1999 Atonement, dir.: Joe Wright, 2007 Animal Farm, dir.: Joy Batchelor, Jahn Halas, 1954, based on George Orwell Cider House Rules, dir.: Lasse Hallström, 1999, based on John Irving 1984, dir.: Michael Radford, 1984, based on George Orwell Jonathan Livingston Seagull, dir.: Hall Bartlett, 1973, based on Richard Bach Sophie´s Choice, dir.: Alan J. Pakula, 1982 Catch-22, dir.: Mike Nichols, 1970, based on Joseph Heller One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, dir.: Miloš Forman, 1975, based on Ken Kesey
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